medicine wheel

The Medicine Wheel is a tool that will get your life moving.

Unfortunately, it's been made complicated and arcane.

                 The Wheel is not the mystery some make it out to be.
                              It is intuitive, accessible, and reflective.

     Teachings of the Medicine Wheel is a workshop for people ready to take the next step on their Earth Walk, to figure out their hidden patterns, and to get on with it. You will learn:

           * Principles and concepts; not rules, dictates, or commandments
           * To trust your intuition and regain your personal power
           * To fine tune your powers of observation
           * To figure out the hard issues
           * To work with the spirit energies of the medicine helpers

"The sundancer believes that each person is a unique Living Medicine Wheel, powerful beyond imagination, that has been limited and placed upon the Earth to Touch, Experience, and Learn."

The Medicine Wheel is perhaps the single most intriguing symbol of the ancient Americas. It is a physical structure, typically made with stones arranged in a circular pattern, usually on consecrated ground. This configuration is big enough for people to enter, and Wheels built this way tend to be left standing for periodic use. Often seen as curious religious artifacts by academics, some of the surviving ancient Medicine Wheels have been found to be accurate celestial calendars, or seasonal guides. It is this capacity of the Wheel that we concentrate on in the Teachings workshop; the Wheel as a personal Life guide.

Each point on the Wheel, from five to 36, represents distinct qualities and universal spiritual characteristics. On those points, you'll place medicine helpers that you've chosen, and at times for no obvious reason; just seems like the right animal, or tree, or gemstone for that place, but you'll soon see that the Spirits really are guiding you. When the dominant energies of the medicine helpers, or totems, combine with the aspects of the point on the Wheel they've been placed at, a story emerges that will guide you as it reveals the acquired traits, or core beliefs that have blocked you in the past. These are referred to generally as personal Healing Wheels. But you will also learn about personal Free Form Wheels.

Working a Medicine Wheel to create positive change is a physical process that anchors into our body memory the realizations of the mind. These realizations shift our emotional energy and help us build a foundation of more powerful thinking and feeling that lead us to better choices because we come to know who we really are.

Where Healing Wheels are a direct reflection of your Life-patterns, Free Form Wheels are more open to the guiding influences of the Spirits (Personal Spirit Guides and Helper Spirits.) You will learn how to prepare before creating either kind of Wheel. Personal Wheels are usually small (on the dining room table, the bed, living room floor), are built for a specific session, then taken down until next needed. Free Form Wheels are often used in determining and executing Life Purpose, and in tandem with Healing Wheels, for manifesting

The Medicine Wheel works because it reveals unsupportive core beliefs, points you in a better direction, then anchors that new awareness into your physical body-memory, through movement; placing the stones and totems, moving about the Wheel, and finally, often suddenly, locking onto the answers the totems have brought to you, what Jung called "gestalt." Now more aware of these energies, you'll have better control over your life, and those old, self-defeating patterns will cease, empowering you to manifest your dreams much more easily.